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away. Begging us upon his return to follow, we were led to a wall where clung a dead butterfly, barely unfolded from its cocoon. Its fragile yet brilliantly colored wings offered a fleeting glimpse of the majestic animal it would have become had it lived. This mysterious object was little more than an inexplicable curiosity to my child who at that time was hardly “aware” of his own existence. Yet somehow this butterfly, who so valiantly struggled for life to the very moment of its death, touched in my son an existential chord; an appreciation for the gossamer thinness that divides life and death.Children are natural existentialists. Attuned to their bodies, ever in touch with awe and brimming with truth, they live in the moment; their bodies are their homes. For them, home is not a place but a timelessness grounded in the ‘now.’ And in the endlessness of that ‘now,’ the complexities of what lies ahead—relationships, achievements, meaning, and even death—are insignificant.

Preparation of tablets
One knows that a tablet is the most common form of medication for the administering of drugs in a dry state. Its preparation consti¬tutes an important part of modem “Pharmaceutical Technology”. The method of tablet making or tabletting is defined as a process of pres¬sure of powdered medicine.
It is generally observed that some tablets are made easier from certain drugs than from other ones. For example, sodium chloride is used without the addition of auxiliary substances. But for lactose the addition of such substances is necessary to overcome certain difficul¬ties. It is interesting that in the process of tabletting some materials are continuously binding and sticking in the special machine. Stick¬ing takes place when there is too much moisture in the granules be¬cause of insufficient drying, etc.
The application of different pressure during tabletting plays a very great role. It is important that tablets which are being dissolved slowly by saliva in the mouth are more strongly compressed than other ones using for common internal administration. Another important effect of higher pressures is an increase of friction which causes the use of greater amount of lubricating and gliding substances, such as natural starch. The use of starch as an auxiliary component in tablet making is generally recognized. It was stated that starches possessed very good gliding properties and didn’t show any lubricating action.
Задание 2. Дайте ответы на английском языке.
1. How is the method of tablet making defined?
2. What is the difference between the use of sodium chloride and lactose?
3. How many lubricating and gliding substances are used and where?
4. What properties did starches possess?
5. Where are some materials continuously binding and sticking?
6. What is tablet?
7. Why does sticking take place?
8. How are more strongly compressed tablets being dissolved in the mouth?
9. What plays a very important role in tablet making?
10. What can you tell about the use of starch in tabletting?